Emergency humanitarianism

Weapons Convention is facilitated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the assistance received through the contributions of member states and the utilisation of experts within and external to the OPCW. It also involves the coordination and delivery of specialised services from national agencies and other international organisations involved in providing emergency humanitarian assistance. The OPCW will continue its work on the cooperative efforts with many member states to maintain the effort to development, implement and train for an effective delivery of assistance in accordance with the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention. 

Gottlieb G (1972) The United Nations and emergency humanitarian assistance in India-PaMstan. 

Harvey, Paul. 2005. Cash and Vouchers in Emergencies. Humanitarian Policy Group Discussion Paper. London Overseas Development Institute. 

To coordinate the establishment and maintenance of permanent stockpiles of emergency and humanitarian assistance by States Parties, in accordance with subparagraphs 7(b) and 7(c) of Article X 6 To inspect the items for serviceability7 ... 

To make emergency, supplementary, and humanitarian assistance available to the requesting State Party, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention9 ... 

The modular approach is based upon the current capacity of the OPCW in terms of offers of assistance by States Parties (in the form of material and personnel), and the capacity of the Secretariat to store, maintain, transport, and distribute the items and resources most likely to be needed should a CW-related emergency arise. The components of this approach would involve a central stockpile of resources and equipment in the Organisation s headquarters, available for immediate dispatch to a requesting State Party, and in addition, stockpiles of resources which have been offered by States Parties and organised in the form of modules. The modules would be categorised into basic assistance modules (BAMs) for emergency assistance, and specialised assistance modules (SAMs) for supplementary and humanitarian assistance. The Secretariat would store BAMs and a very limited stockpile of humanitarian assistance, while both BAMs and SAMs would be stockpiled by the States Parties. The basic module could consist of pallet-packed items, ready to be airlifted within 12 hours after the request for assistance has been received. The BAMs in the headquarters stockpile will be identical to the BAMs stored by States Parties. This will facilitate identification, packing, dispatch, and the delivery of assistance. 

Indigenous knowledge is a thus a powerful resource and therefore a key element in the fight against humanitarian aspects of emergencies worldwide. 

Emergency aid and humanitarian demining, earthquake/tsunami relief. Projects in Afghanistan,... 

Merson, H., Black, R. E., Mills, A. J. (Eds.). (2006). Complex humanitarian emergencies. In International public health Diseases, programs, systems, andpolicies (pp. 439-510). Gaithersburg, MD Aspen. 

Burkle, F. (2002). Complex humanitarian emergencies. In D. Hogan J. Burstein (Eds.), Disaster medicine (pp. 47-54). Philadelphia lippincott Williams Wilkins. 

As is the case in all ethical situations, the most important thing is that the individual practitioner is aware of the consequences of action and inaction. A clear understanding that aid is a political action and aid relief has potential to destroy as well as build for the future is important. Awareness especially in complex emergencies of the difficulties with neutrality and independence is very helpful. Most importantly, however, promoting the ethic of humanitarianism not in a naive way but in the context of full political and cultural awareness is critical. 

Griekspoor, A., Collins, S. (2001). Raising the standards in emergency relief How useful are the Sphere minimum standards for humanitarian assistance British Medical Journal, 323, 741-742. 

Overseas Development Institution. (1995). Joint evaluation of emergency assistance to Rwanda. Study III Humanitarian aid and effects. London Author. 

World Health Organization (2008). Epidemic and pandemic alert and response. WHO Programme on Disease Control in Humanitarian Emergencies (DCE) (http //www.who.int/csr/en/2008). 

Finally, a number of nontraditional practice sites have been described in which pharmacist have participated in natural disaster relief or as part of a humanitarian effort relief team. These nontraditional practices have included a pharmacy consultative service for wilderness emergency drug planning, pharmacy involvement in emergency preparedness/response, the provision of pharmaceutical services at a medical site after Hurricane Andrew in Florida, and the experience of several pharmacists providing service in Bosnia-Herzegovina. ° ... 

The emergency and humanitarian division of WHO/HQ plays an active role in assisting the member states in... 

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